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The present invention relates to a photosensitizer-containing nanoparticle, comprising a photosensitizer covalently bonded throughout at least a part of said nanoparticle to the nanoparticle matrix material and incorporated therein in a quasi-aggregated state. The present invention further relates to methods for producing the invention nanoparticles, and to methods of killing cancer cells by PDT treatment using the said nanoparticles.
M. Koyakutty, Robinson, D. J., Sterenborg, H. J. C. M., Kascakova, S., and Nair, S., “Targeted nano-photomedicines for photodynamic therapy of cancer”, U.S. Patent EP200907881932012.